I'm so tired of stupid people using the date, or the year as the reason why you should think certain things and not others. I've been hearing this more and more, pretty much everyday now.

"OMG you're not into race mixing and you don't think faggotry is the coolest thing?? It's 2010!!"

It's very annoying and is a logical fallacy just like ad hominem or argumentum ad populum ("everybody knows that!" another libtard favourite). Interestingly enough, CS Lewis was among the first to note the fallacy of chronological snobbery, the assumption that ideas and practises from the past are inherently inferior to modern ones or vice versa. Antis don't follow logic so it may not be much help but it's always worth pointing out.

An amusing anecdote: I listened to an interview with Rita Morena, Puerto Rico- born co-star of West Side Story. She was required to use dark makeup in order to look more Puerto Rican. Meanwhile the star, Natalie Wood, was of Russian-heritage (both parents) used the standard makeup.

Imagine that... living in a world with no coloureds. No crime, no rape, no vandalism, no home invasions, no vagrancy... well, maybe not "no" but certainly a whole helluva lot less. It truly would be a paradise *sigh*

I'd put up with the armies of Sauron and Saruman any day over the constant insults of the black upon our great nation!

And you'll notice the comments section was closed on the article and they were frickin' hilarious!!! The inevitable backlash to b.s. like that begins! And I call shenanigans on them for locking the comments. If you're going to write an article like that, then you must be willing to take the criticisms and not censor people because they wouldn't go along with the P.C. party line. The author and website obviously wanted people to react with outrage and say what a horrible injustice was being done and a violation denying a coloured girl her god-given civil right (of being a glorified piece of scenery in a LOTR prequel)!!! When people didn't react as the author had hoped, they locked the comments... so what does that tell you? That maybe, just maybe there is hope after all...

The social policy researcher, here on a working holiday with her husband, said it was a Christmas ritual for the couple to watch The Lord of the Rings films. "It was the opportunity of a lifetime. I would love to be an extra. But it just seemed like a shame because obviously hobbits are not brown or black or any other colour. They all look kind of homogenised beige and all derived from the Caucasian gene pool."

Writer JRR Tolkien had not specified that all hobbits were pale-skinned. According to The Complete Guide to Middle-earth "Harfoots" are the most common hobbit and "browner" than other types. "Fallohides", who settled the Shire, which included Hobbiton, had "fairer skin".

"In 2010, a movie company should be representing all its viewers," Ms Humphreys said. "It's not just going to be white people seeing The Hobbit, but people from all over the world."

If she's such a great Tolkien fan, she should read the preface to the 2nd edition of "The Silmarillion". Tolkien makes it quite clear that he created Middle Earth in order to provide a folk mythology paradigm that was specific to the British people and their heritage.

If she works as a social policy researcher, then I would imagine that she should be able to appreciate that.

A letter by J.R.R. Tolkien to Milton Waldman, 1951 (found in the preface of The Silmarillion, 2nd edition) (Emphasis is mine):

Quote:

"I was from early days grieved by the poverty of my own beloved country: it had no stories of its own (bound up with its tongue and soil), not of the quality that I sought, and found (as an ingredient) in legends of other lands.

Of course there was and is all the Arthurian world, but powerful as it is, it is imperfectly naturalized, associated with the soil of Britain but not with English; and does not replace what I felt to be missing...."

He intended his mythology to represent the native British people - not some sleazy multicult pipe dream.

This woman probably knew going into the audition that she'd get rejected. She saw a chance to play the race card and grab some attention, and she took it. She probably would have been disappointed if she did get the part.